Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SIRCDIS004 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Assist in preparing dose administration aids
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
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Unit of Competency | SIRCDIS004 - Assist in preparing dose administration aids |
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Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to package pharmaceutical products in Dose Administration Aids (DAAs). It requires the ability to set up pre-packaged doses of prescribed medicines to be administered over set periods, verify contents with a pharmacist and complete DAA patient records. This may be for new and ongoing individual customers or for multiple customers in residential care settings.This unit applies to senior dispensary assistants working in community pharmacies. When preparing DAAs they work under the direct supervision of a pharmacist and their role is limited to those dispensing functions that do not require them to exercise professional pharmaceutical judgement or discretion.This unit incorporates the requirement for pharmacy assistants to comply with federal, state and territory law and Pharmacy Board of Australia Guidelines for supplying scheduled Pharmacy Medicines (S2) and Pharmacist Only Medicines (S3). At the time of publication, they are not, however, required to hold an occupational licence or to be certified as competent in this unit to dispense scheduled medicines. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Skills must be demonstrated in a pharmacy with a designated operational dispensary area. This must be in an industry workplace, which meets Pharmacy Board of Australia and relevant industry standards for dispensary operations. Assessment must ensure use of: information technology hardware and software dispensary software currently used by the community pharmacy industry pharmacy storage locations for filled customer prescriptions pharmacy storage locations, shelf facings and signage for unscheduled medicines, Pharmacy Medicines (S2), and Pharmacist Only Medicines (S3) different types of DAAs: re-usable dosette boxes tamper-proof, sealed DAAs DAA equipment a diverse commercial product range of solid pharmacy medicines; tablets and capsules a range of completed: prescriptions drug charts patient medication profiles service contracts DAA orders, instructions and checklists materials for DAA labelling (for cautionary and advisory details and to print customer details, medicine details and directions for use) Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Professional Practice Standards – provisions relevant to dose administration aids services organisational procedures for preparing dose administration aids customers with whom the individual can interact pharmacists with whom the individual can interact assessment activities that allow the individual to work with commercial speed, timing and productivity to prepare dose administration aids within nominated deadlines. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisation’s requirements for assessors, and have worked in the pharmacy sector for at least two years. |
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Competency Field | Dispensary |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Prepare to pack dose administration aids. |
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Element: Pack dose administration aids. |
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Element: Complete administration and maintenance activities. |
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